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Re: A gasoline engine in a factory is fitted with an automatic [#permalink]
It is not very clear where the feedback mechanism is here. Only reasonable thing to be assumed here is that speed reaches its maximum limit and engine temperature can keep on increasing because flow is limited and flue mixture is limited. There is nothing mentioned about controlling temperature

Though D looks fine, I am still ticked off about the one hour time limit.

Since the argument is talking about the temperature of the exhaust and not the engine's it is safe to expect C will occur because more the fuel more the temperature. Since speed is limited and so is the air flow which in turn causes limited fluel flow. Once flue is limited the temperature of exhaust cannot increase.
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Re: A gasoline engine in a factory is fitted with an automatic [#permalink]
Oh Yeah is C.

Choice C is correct. The control system described in the passage is
known as a feedback loop; as increase in the exhaust temperature
results in an increase in fuel flow, which results in an increase in
exhaust temperature, which results in yet another increase in airflow
and so on . Under these conditions , we could only expect the engine
to continue to run faster and faster until it cannot increase the
airflow or the fuel flow, or both. Since it is obviously impossible
to infinetly increase in the air or fuel flows, the engine will reach
some unknown maximum speed, and maintain that speed as in choice C.
Choices A , B and E describe results which might be obtained by some
other engine control system, but not by this feedback loop. It is not
necessarily true that the engine will overheat as in choice D.
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Re: A gasoline engine in a factory is fitted with an automatic [#permalink]
I also think that option C is the best.

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